This is something I've been wondering a lot about myself. Becoming a tenured professor is usually considered a long and extremely difficult path. But is becoming a researcher at a National Lab comparably hard? Is it something that should only be sought after by the extremely determined who are...
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and a 2 credit course about dinosaurs
At least that's the plan so far. Is it unusual to be taking only 12 credits? I was going to add another physics course (statistical and thermal physics) but my adviser advised against it...
I think http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/1999_07_23/noDOI.12838650231875993964" is fairly relevant.
I was under the impression that jobs in national labs were no more scarce than jobs in academia. Though it really does seem harder to find...
From what I've seen, most of the threads concerning jobs after receiving a PhD in physics focus on professorships. But I haven't seen too much about working in national labs and industry. So here are a few things I've been wondering about myself:
How hard is it to get a job in industry? In...
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First off, a little background information. I'm a second year physics major planning to go to grad school, so I'm looking to start doing research (preferably this summer). The trouble is, I've only taken intro physics courses so far and am not close enough to any professors to ask for...
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-01Physics-IFall1999/VideoLectures/index.htm
The physics lectures here are really good for learning introductory physics. The professor uses demonstrations to make them more interesting.
I'm sure you can find a lot of other useful open courseware on...